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-consumer price discrimination; and (iii) inter-product price discrimination, and assess the antitrust liability that these practices … may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …
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substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies …
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We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The …
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I discuss the impact of tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on consumer surplus in the affected markets. I show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on the basis of efficiency typically fails....
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We study optimal cartel prices in a two-sided market. We present a simple model showing that prices above the two-sided monopoly price may prevail on one side of a two-sided market as a means to enhance the sustainability of the cartel. We prove that in such a case a higher benefit from the...
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We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … the patented invention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunize a patent holder from antitrust … antitrust principles, courts have found that monopolists could be liable for unlawfully extending their monopoly positions into …
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This paper investigates the price war in the UK quality newspaper industry in the 1990s. We build a model of the newspaper market which encompasses demand for differentiated products on both, the readers and advertisers side of the market, and profit maximization by four competing oligopolistic...
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collusive agreements in terms of welfare and pluralism. We analyse and compare two forms of collusion: in the first, publishers … thus show that collusion on prices reinforces the tendency towards a Pensée Unique discussed in Gabszewicz, Laussel and …
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Online communities provide a social sphere for people to share information and knowledge. While information sharing is becoming a ubiquitous online phenomenon, how to ensure information quality or induce quality content, however, remains a challenge due to the anonymity of commentators. This...
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This paper investigates the patent licensing networks formed by competing firms. Assuming that licensing agreements can involve the payment of fixed fees only and that firms compete à la Cournot, we show that the complete network is always bilaterally efficient and that the monopoly network is...
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